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wolfen69
August 11th, 2008, 07:12 PM
i tried something like speed dial for firefox a while back, but it was slow as hell. anyone know of something that works good?
koji042
August 11th, 2008, 07:17 PM
Speed dial was one of my favorite parts of Opera. :)
In firefox, I use the Speed Dial add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810). There is also another add-on called Fast Dial that works in a similar way(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721).

Hope that helps.
cardinals_fan
August 11th, 2008, 07:31 PM
Some quick html does it fine. Here's mine:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html> <head>
<title>Speeddial</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1></h1>



<table align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center">

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q" size="31"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Google Calendar"
onClick="window.location='http://www.google.com/calendar/render'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Gmail"
onClick="window.location='http://www.gmail.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="BBC"
onClick="window.location='http://news.bbc.co.uk/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Ubuntu Forums"
onClick="window.location='http://ubuntuforums.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="FeedBucket"
onClick="window.location='http://www.feedbucket.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Arch Linux"
onClick="window.location='http://www.archlinux.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="NetBSD"
onClick="window.location='http://www.netbsd.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Random Stuff"
onClick="window.location='http://colonelcrayon.wordpress.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Wikimedia"
onClick="window.location='http://www.wikimedia.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body> </html>
binbash
August 11th, 2008, 08:43 PM
there is an addon exactly for this at firefox addon site : )
cardinals_fan
August 11th, 2008, 08:52 PM
there is an addon exactly for this at firefox addon site : )
I think wolfen69 already tried that and found it slow...
Canis familiaris
August 11th, 2008, 08:55 PM
Some quick html does it fine. Here's mine:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html> <head>
<title>Speeddial</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1></h1>



<table align="center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" align="center">

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q" size="31"
maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Google Calendar"
onClick="window.location='http://www.google.com/calendar/render'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Gmail"
onClick="window.location='http://www.gmail.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="BBC"
onClick="window.location='http://news.bbc.co.uk/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Ubuntu Forums"
onClick="window.location='http://ubuntuforums.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="FeedBucket"
onClick="window.location='http://www.feedbucket.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Arch Linux"
onClick="window.location='http://www.archlinux.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="NetBSD"
onClick="window.location='http://www.netbsd.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Random Stuff"
onClick="window.location='http://colonelcrayon.wordpress.com/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
<td><input type="button" value="Wikimedia"
onClick="window.location='http://www.wikimedia.org/'" style="width:
180; height: 100"></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body> </html>


Nice Job.
cardinals_fan
August 11th, 2008, 08:57 PM
Nice Job.
Thank you :)

I saw someone somewhere say that they did it that way, so I messed around a little and ended up with that. The Google search was grabbed from someone else's code and melded into mine.
wolfen69
August 12th, 2008, 01:19 AM
thanks koji, fast dial is exactly what i need. it's probably even better than opera's version. a really nice addon.